Evangelical Superintendentage AB Galicia

Evangelical Superintendentage AB Galicia
Diocesan territory	Galicia and Bucovina
Seat	Lemberg (1804–1870) Biala (1871–1885; 1897–1918) Gelsendorf (1886–1896)
Parishes	33 (as of 1913)
Subsidiary communities	58 (as of 1913)
Preaching stations	17 (as of 1913)

The Evangelical Superintendentur AB Galizien was a diocese of the Evangelical Church AB in Austria , which existed from 1804 to 1918.

Structures

In 1913, 33 parishes in Galicia and Bukovina belonged to the superintendent .

Seniorate

It was divided into four seniorates :

• the Helvetic Seniorat for the Reformed Churches
• the Middle Seniorat for Middle Galicia, seat in Gelsendorf
• the Eastern Seniorate for Eastern Galicia, seat in Lviv
• the Western Seniorate for Western Galicia, seat in Biala

Superintendent

The church was run by a superintendent . The office of the superintendent was dependent on where the respective superintendent worked as parish priest. Until 1870 the seat was in Lemberg , from 1871 to 1885 in Biala , from 1886 to 1896 in Gelsendorf and from 1897 to 1918 again in Biala.

The superintendents were (term of office in brackets):

Superintendent of Moravia, Silesia and Galicia

• Johann Traugott Bartelmus (1784–1804)

Superintendent of Galicia

• Josef Paulini (1804-1806)
• Samuel Bredetzky (1808-1812)
• Johann Samuel Fuchs (1813-1817)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Stockmann (1818–1831)
• Adolf Theodor Haase (1833–1870)
• Jacob Hönel (1871-1885)
• Carl Gustav Zipser (1886-1896)
• Hermann Georg Fritsche (1897–1918)

A special feature of the superintendent was that it included not only Lutheran (AB) and mixed denomination (AB / HB) but also purely Reformed (HB) congregations that were not subject to the Evangelical Church HB in Austria .

history

First parish in the Kingdom of Poland

In 1759 the first Galician-German Protestant congregation was founded in Hinterwalden (Zaleszczyki) in the Kingdom of Poland .

Evangelical communities in the Habsburg Monarchy

After Galicia was taken over by the Habsburg Monarchy , the Protestant Germans received special religious rights under the imperial patent of October 1, 1774. In that year they were subordinated to the new superintendent of Moravia, Silesia and Galicia . In 1775 the new parishes in Lemberg , Jaroslau , Zamość , Brody and Hinterwalden (Zaleszczyki) received imperial permission to employ a pastor. It was not until 1778 that a German clergyman was found in Ephraim Gottlob Hoffmann who was ready to settle permanently in Lemberg.

The tolerance patent of September 17, 1781 from Emperor Joseph II further improved their possibilities. In 1789 the first seniorates were created for West Galicia and East Galicia. In 1804 the Protestant parishes were merged into the newly founded Evangelical Superintendentur AB Galizien , after Galicia had become formally an integral part of the Austrian Empire.

Foundation of the Evangelical Churches A. and HB in Lesser Poland

With the fall of Austria-Hungary in 1918, the superintendent was separated from the church leadership in Vienna. The congregations had the opportunity to join the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland or the Uniate Evangelical Church in Poland , but decided to go independent: in 1920, the Evangelical Church A. and HB in Lesser Poland was established as the successor to the Evangelical Superintendentur AB Galicia .

Communities

(Selection)

In 1890 there were 24 parishes, in 1913 there were 33.

Parish	founding year	Denomination	Seniorate	Church building	image
Old Fratautz	1908	FROM	Eastern	Evangelical Church in Alt-Fratautz
Andraschfalva	1797	HB	Helvetic	Evangelical Church in Andraschfalva
Augustdorf	1840	AB and HB	Eastern	Prayer house in Augustdorf
Baginsberg	1839	AB and HB	Eastern	House of prayer in Baginsberg
Bandrow	1788	FROM	Middle	Prayer house in Bandrow; House of prayer in Makowa (branch parish AB)
Biala	1781	FROM	Western	Martin Luther Church in Biala
Brigidau	1786	FROM	Middle	Evangelical Church in Brigidau; Prayer house in Neudorf ; Prayer house in Gassendorf
Chernivtsi	1849 (1795)	FROM	Eastern	Evangelical Church in Chernivtsi
German tereblesty	1905	FROM	Eastern	Evangelical Church in German Tereblesty
Dornfeld	1786	FROM	Middle	Evangelical Church in Dornfeld (1817); Prayer house in Falkenstein (Filialgemeinde AB)
Gelsendorf	1785/1812	FROM	Middle	Prayer house in Gelsendorf; Prayer house in Bolechow (Filialgemeinde), Evangelical Church in Stryi (Filialgemeinde AB)
Hartfeld	1780s	FROM	Middle	Evangelical Church in Hartfeld; Evangelical Church in Neu-Burschitz (Filialgemeinde AB), Prayer House in Alt-Jazow (Filialgemeinde AB), Prayer House in Neu-Kupnowitz (Filialgemeinde AB), Prayer House in Moosberg (Filialgemeinde HB), Evangelical Church in Schumlau (Filialgemeinde AB)
Hliboka	1902	FROM	Eastern	Evangelical Church in Hliboka
Hohenbach	1783/1784 (until 1867 parish seat in Reichsheim )	FROM	Western	Prayer house in Hohenbach; Prayer house in Reichsheim (branch parish AB, until 1867 mother parish)
Illischestje	1858	FROM	Eastern	Evangelical Church in Illischestje;
New Itzkany	1902	FROM	Eastern	Evangelical Church in New Itzkany
Jakobeny	1853 (1796 as a branch of Milleschoutz )	FROM	Eastern	Evangelical Church in Jakobeny; Evangelical Church in Eisenau (Filialgemeinde AB), Evangelical Church in Kirlibaba (Filialgemeinde AB), Prayer House in Luisenthal - Pozoritta (Filialgemeinde AB)
Jaroslau	around 1775	FROM	Middle	Holy Spirit Church in Jaroslau (former Catholic hospital church)
Josefow	1786/1805	HB	Middle	Evangelical Church in Josefow; Evangelical Church in Mierow (Filialgemeinde AB)
Josefsberg	1783	HB	Helvetic	Evangelical Church in Josefsberg; House of prayer in Ugartsberg (branch parish HB)
Koenigsberg	1783/1801	HB	Helvetic	Prayer house in Königsberg; Evangelical Church in Gillershof (Filialgemeinde HB)
Krakow	1816	FROM	Western	Martinskirche in Krakow (former Catholic monastery church)
Lviv	1775	FROM	Middle	Evangelical Church in Lemberg (former Dominican Church of St. Ursula); Prayer house in Dobrzanica (Filialgemeinde AB in Uniower Diakonat ), prayer house in Unterwalden (Filialgemeinde AB in Uniower Diakonat ), Evangelical Church in Theodorshof (Filialgemeinde AB)
New Gawlow	1785/1790	FROM	Western	Evangelical Church in New Gawlow
New Sandez	1802 (previously to Stadlo )	FROM	Western	Evangelical Church in Neu-Sandez (former Franciscan Church)
Radautz	1791 (until 1860 parish seat in Milleschoutz )	FROM	Eastern	Evangelical Church in Radautz; Prayer house in Milleschoutz (Filialgemeinde AB, mother parish until 1860), Evangelical Church in Alt-Fratautz , Evangelical Church in Tereblestie (Filialgemeinde AB)
Ranischau	1782	FROM	Western	Evangelical Church in Ranischau; Evangelical Church in Steinau (Filialgemeinde AB)
Reichau	1787	FROM	Middle	Evangelical Church in Reichau; Evangelical Church in Smolin
Stadlo	1786	FROM	Western	House of prayer in Stadlo
Stanislau	1890	FROM	Eastern
Ugartsthal	1784	FROM	Eastern	Evangelical Church in Ugartsthal; Evangelical Church in Engelsberg (Filialgemeinde AB), Evangelical Church in Landestreu (Filialgemeinde AB)
Zalesczyki / Hinterwalden	1759	FROM	Eastern	Evangelical Church in Hinterwalden

Pastor

Lviv

• Ephraim Gottlob Hoffmann (1778–1787)
• Friedrich Cerulli (1788–1801)
• Rev. Frost
• Josef Paulini (1804-1806)
• Samuel Bredetzky (1806-1812)
• Samuel Tock

literature

• Ludwig Schneider: Brief description of the circumstances and conditions in the Protestant colonies of Galicia up to 1816, Posen, 1931 ( online )
• Julius A. Kolatschek: The Protestant Church of Austria in the German-Slavic countries. A representation of the field of work of the Evangelical Association of the Gustaf Adolf Foundation in the countries mentioned and at the same time a contribution to the history of Austrian Protestantism . Self-published by the Vienna Main Association of the Gustaf Adolf Foundation, Vienna 1869, chap. XII. Galicia , S. 146-191 .
• Julius A. Kolatschek: The Protestant Church of Austria in the German-Slavic countries. A representation of the field of work of the Evangelical Association of the Gustaf Adolf Foundation in the countries mentioned and at the same time a contribution to the history of Austrian Protestantism . Self-published by the Vienna Main Association of the Gustaf Adolf Foundation, Vienna 1869, chap. XIII. Bukovina , S. 192-201 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Evangelical Church A. u. HB in Austria in 1913. Johannes-Mathesius-Gesellschaft - Evangelische Sudetendeutsche e. V., May 27, 2011, accessed October 19, 2013 . 
2. ^ ^{A b} Artur Bachmann: Personalities of Galicia-German History. Aid Committee of the Galician Germans V., accessed on October 16, 2013 . 
3. ↑ K. Völker: The beginnings of the Protestant community in Zaleszczyki in Galicia . In: Yearbook of the Society for the History of Protestantism in Austria . Vienna 1909. pp. 157-174
4. ↑ Isabel Röskau-Rydel : Culture on the periphery of the Habsburg Empire. The history of education and cultural institutions in Lviv from 1772 to 1848 . Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 1993, ISBN 3-447-03423-8 ., P.127
5. ^ Julius A. Kolatschek: The Protestant Church of Austria in the German-Slavic countries. A representation of the field of work of the Evangelical Association of the Gustaf Adolf Foundation in the countries mentioned and at the same time a contribution to the history of Austrian Protestantism . Self-published by the Vienna Main Association of the Gustaf Adolf Foundation, Vienna 1869, p. 146 .
6. ↑ Traugott Bartelmus with information on the first two seniors
7. ↑ ^{a b} Małgorzata Kośka, Dorota Lewandowska: Księgi metrykalne gmin ewangelicko-augsburskiego i helweckiego wyznania 1764 - 1939. Archiwum Główne Akt Dawnych w Warszawie, accessed on October 16, 2013 (Polish). 
8. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Sophie A. Welsch, The Bukovina-Germans During the Habsburg Period: Settlement, Ethnic Interaction, Contributions. "Immigrants & Minorities", 1986, p. 97 ( Memento from April 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ Ludwig Schneider: Brief description of the circumstances and conditions in the Protestant colonies of Galicia up to 1816, Posen, 1931 ( online )